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Now considered a Classic. First US edition of self-taught photographer Tamotsu Yato's monograph; the photographer responsible for many of Mishima's most iconic portraits. "Naked in loincloth and samurai attire, their usually impassive faces contorted with wild fury, struggle in a seething mass of straining bodies to rid themselves of worldly impurities by touching a human scapegoat, a bewildered- looking villager barely able to stand in the human maelstrom that surrounds him.